Debris removed from the Atlantic is not from the airplane of Air France, says Aeronautics

Debris removed from the Atlantic is not from the airplane of Air France, says Aeronautics

A Brazilian news site is reporting the wreckage found is not from the Air France plane.

“The BAF (Brazilian Air Force) informed in the night of this thursday that the removed destroços of the Atlantic in this thursday are not of the
Airbus A-330 of the Air France, that disappeared on board in the last sunday."

BRAZILIAN officials have so far only recovered sea "trash" from a zone in the Atlantic where an Air France jet came down, and not aircraft debris
as originally thought.

"Up to now, no material from the plane has been recovered,'' Brigadier Ramon Cardoso, director of Brazilian air traffic control, said.

He said items pulled from the ocean yesterday and originally thought to come from downed Air France flight AF 477 actually came from another source,
likely a ship.

He also said a big oil slick originally thought to come from the plane probably also came from a ship, though fuel slicks detected were likely from
the jet because the fuel was of a type not used by seagoing vessels.

19:30h Debris recovered from the Atlantic are not from Air France plane , says Air Force

The FAB (Brazillian Air Force) informed this Thursday evening that the debris collected from the Atlantic this Thursday is not from the Air France
Airbus A-330 , that disappeared last Sunday (31) with 228 people onboard.

According to Brigadier General Ramon Borges Cardoso , director of Decea ( director of the Air Space Control Department) , "there was no material from
the plane that was collected".

"No , no material from the plane was collected. What we saw were materials belonging to an airship that were left behind because of the priority for
the search of bodies. But , till this moment , no piece of the airship was recovered" , affirmed.

According to Ramon , the oil stain sighted was also not from the airship. "Such a great quantity found could not have come from an airplane", he
said in Recife. According to him , though , the fuel sighted is from an airplane. "The fuel has the most probability of coming from an airplane. What
was discarded was the oil."

The Brigadier said , though , that the searches will continue in the region, and will be reinforced in the weekend, with the arrival of new airships
and ships sent by France.

Today, a piece of 2,5 squared meters and two floats were salvaged from the waters of the Atlantic , around 13h. According to the Air Force , the
object was sighted 550km off Fernando de Noronha (PE) by the plane C-130 Hércules of FAB. Later , though , the Navy affirmed that the pieces brought
no identification from the Air France Airbus-A330 .

The brigadier denied that the searches have come back to stake zero. "No. We all have calculations made of the areas. Because taking into
consideration the speed of the current , we know exactly where these debris should be. And this has been confirming itself. Because all planes we used
on these calculations , everywhere , we ended up sighting their debris" , he said.

According to him, even though the pieces collected today are not from the Airbus , the Air Force still defends that the debris sighted around the
region are from the plane that did flight 447.

Ok, they find a bunch of crap floating in the ocean. The fuel appears to be of a type used by airplanes, and the debris might have come from a plane,
just not the Air France plane? Or it all might have come from a ship? But nothing came from the Air France plane?

Ok... if not from the Air France plane, then where did all this crap come from? Is someone else missing a plane and not reporting it, or is there a
lost ship not yet reported?

Or are we losing something in the translation of these articles? Are the foreign presses simply not talking to each other, or are the different
agencies not communicating? Why do all the English language news websites still believe all this debris is from the plane, but the Brazillians are
saying no?

Are the Brazillians simply making premature judgements?

Questions, questions. Somehow, either the Brazillians are extremely confused, or something very weird is afoot.

I have not found any other news sites that are claiming that the Brazillian Air Force does not think any of this is from the Air France plane. Here is
another site that still maintains a large debris swath and recovery of plane parts:

"It has been verified that the material did not belong to the plane," Brigadier Ramon Borges Cardoso told reporters in Recife about the material
recovered Thursday. "It is a pallet of wood that is utilized for transport. It is used in planes, but on this flight to Paris, there was no wooden
pallet."

He added that oil slicks seen on the ocean were not from the plane, either, and that the quantity of oil exceeded the amount the plane would have
carried.

Of course without seeing what exactly the debris was found other then the oil slick and the wooden crate I cant make any statements with absolute
certainly . A possible explanation is that rubbish that was dumped from a merchant ship was found by searchers . The oil slick could have also come
from a ship although I am not so sure how so much oil would have ended up in the drink . Mind you some merchant ships from the third world just look
like rust buckets .

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